18.01.69, Tokyo: 8.500 cops sealed off the University which had been occupied since October. They began clearing occupied buildings one by one, arresting all of the occupants while supporters came to fight them in the streets libcom.org/history/zeng...

you could put a gun to my head and tell me i have to vote for gavin newsom or else and i would take the or else

“We must be bilingual even in a single language, we must have a minor language inside our own language, we must create a minor use of our own language… Proust says: ‘Great literature is written in a sort of foreign language…’ That is the definition of style.” — Deleuze, Dialogues

Spinoza would disagree

Though it shall taste as honey in thy mouth, lot shall it make thy stomach bitter.

I like Mississippi Uptown Toodaloo

It’s easy for consumer fictions to say fuck capitalism but even harder for them to imagine a better more functional new way that the world could work Fallout is just about capitalism in decay

When was the last successful general strike or protest movement that shifted a leader's foreign policy decisions *quickly*? Asking because of the conversations on here that the problem is primarily that "Americans don't understand how bad this is."

Since the Cold War all American movements have failed. There was a 1918 general strike that took over a city in the Pacific Northwest but since the creation of the NLRB, all attempts at American general strikes have failed. The best we have gotten have been big wildcat strikes.

“This is their busted future And this is our dream Which one do you believe in, believe in, believe in,” - Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra ‧ 2005

Help Razan if you can

Help Alma if you can

Pre-colonization, we Hawaiians worked 3-4 hours per day, and all resources (food, medicine, housing) were distributed according to need through the ahupua'a system. Zero hoarding was allowed by ali'i (leaders), and mass worker exodus as retaliation prevented it. #SNAP #Shutdown

Makes me feel insane to live in a world that's persecuting trans folk while simultaneously doing big billboards advertising gender affirming care to cis people???

As a trans person, I do want to attack cis dignity but I want credit for the amazing things I do to attack cis people not to be given unearned credit for attacks on cis dignity that I have not made ! These cis people should stop giving participation trophies ! Reward trans people who attack them!

Eat Elon Musk

Quotedunking is rude. Anyone who quotation dunks is being confrontational. If you are quoting a post to joke or converse because there is no way to comment, that is one thing, but replying is generally less aggro. Why people get super aggressive on these apps is anyone’s guess. Reply or block.

Every iteration of the Democratic Party has been pro war and pro capitalism. Even if the Democratic Party goes back in a Keynesian direction, it will still be pro war and pro capitalism. We have to move beyond laissez faire capitalism and welfare capitalism. Both lead to each other and are traps.

My gf is the most amazing magical person. She helped me make the timeline for my journal article and read through it for me. Intellectual intimacy is so important and is under valued in our superficial society. You can fuck so many people. You can only be intellectually intimate with a few people.

SCOOP from Douglas Macmillan Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Le Guin got the words spot on here - ‘But when we crave power over life - endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality-then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then becomes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in scale’

Public awards have always been popularity contests for the rich and privileged. Nobel invented dynamite and was guilty over it. Oscars were created by Hollywood to union bust.

Once it gets warmer I will be more in touch with the outdoors and the sun and will be more sane as a result. For now, cabin fever makes me crazy. I haven’t been outdoors enough. I don’t know where to go hiking in this new place I live. I am urban bound. It is tough to find good people. World is sad

I've seen some useless politicians in my time, but oh boy, nothing even comes close to establishment democrats.

I see the way folks talk about "seizing the means of production" in relation to labor and capitalism. But I don't see that as often applied to analysis of philanthropy, non profits, fine arts, venture capitalism. (All industries that revolve around wealthy capital patronship and money laundering. )

INCITE’s “the revolution will not be funded” critiques the nonprofit industrial complex, Moten criticized academia in Undercommons. People do internal critiques of academia and nonprofit culture. But it’s just we haven’t moved past them. DIY cultures get turned into nonprofits often and get worse.

Most US media is downplaying this by talking about how few soldiers were sent to Greenland yesterday by the Nordic countries, but omits the fact that they’re all planning officers, preparing first for a large exercise followed by long term stay by a larger force.

If your academic friends seem depressed, we are. Our jobs are all at risk on multiple fronts. (Yes, I'm listening into a university budget meeting. No, this is not a self-caring choice.)

If the definition of Marxism is treating 19th century work as the height of Marxism, then many contemporary strains of Marxism are not Marxist ! I do agree that Stalinists are not Marxist. Coincidentally, Stuart Hall relies on Gramsci who was a Stalinist for his understanding of Marxism…

Work and labor are such different things. Work is what you put in even when it won’t benefit you much but just to maintain homeostasis in your living space or in your intellectual zone. Labor is how you are exploited in order to get currency. I don’t dream of labor either but of happy works for love

The winter is cold and dark and sad and I have entire dramas and episodes of my little life as reactions to whatever one of the three or four screens in my apartment are showing or saying. I still read for work but I read terse academic writing. I do want to practice reading paper books instead.

If I were in the Walking Dead, I would recall african lore and decide to call the walkers "zombies". After convincing my companions to adopt this term, I would focus on persuading other survivor communities to do the same. Without this shared language, we could not tackle the zombie apocalypse.

That Martin Kettle Guardian piece all the centrists are loving. “What might have happened in Germany if the 1930s communist movement had tried to work with the social democrats and liberals against the fascists?” Stares in Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht.

Finished revisions on my journal article! Application to second PhD is in. All my stressful deadlines have been completed. Blissful Ma Po Tofu is in my stomach. The pain of this week is passing. I will play more video games for the next few days. I am excited about the future again. I have hope.

✊✊✊ rise up fellow workers✊✊✊

did you know that dave van ronk, the folk musician the movie inside llewyn davis is loosely based on, lived in the village a block from the stonewall inn and during the stonewall riot he came over "to see what the commotion was about" and ended up joining in throwing bottles at the cops?

One of the things I have learned about job searching as a PhD is that academia has trained all of us to read job descriptions literally ... and that that is apparently a problem that causes us to self-reject from jobs frequently.

The Marxist philosopher Slavoj Zizek last year stated that no one has invented the future, and so we are left scrambling in the past. While I have many, many issues with his work, occasionally he gives voice to things I find very worrying.

The American Ruse, which is in reality a series of ruses and mythologies, tells you that to be American is to be Free. And that to be free, you have to be American. That countries where people wear suits and ties and participate in "Democracy," that learn English, do trade with us, are Free.

The revolution is not only for the educationally neglected but also for those who refuse the history of violent accumulation through poetry, philosophy and obscurity. Those who want to change the world must learn from people tried to change it in the past and instead got digested by it.

The revolution proceeds through a rethinking of all previous philosophy and theory. Sometimes that rethinking process will be beyond the average person and sometimes we need to speak to people who get paid to teach and write about Foucault or Marx as those who are exiled from the academy.

I started throwing together background research to share with folks who wanted more details on the U.S.-Venezuela-Guyana oil triangle I wrote about in @drilledmedia.bsky.social last week, and then figured I should make it public. Hope it helps! drilled.media/news/venezue...

The fact that ICE/CBP abandoned a car full of sensitive and incriminating evidence to avoid awkward scenes after shooting somebody just shows how incompetent they are. Just got lectured about bad opsec and didn't secure the car, just fucked off. This is who we're dealing with.

Remember that imperialism is capitalism in decline and that fascism is imperialism turned inward.

I suppose it depends on the nature of the crisis. Some crises just make life more difficult for the poorest and least powerful, some break up established unjust structures and create space for new opportunities to emerge.